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Are you ready to immerse yourself in a real English conversation?
你准备好沉浸在真实的英语对话中了吗?
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com and today I have a special guest.
大家好,我是来自 SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com 的凡妮莎,今天我邀请到了一位特别嘉宾。
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This is my husband, Dan.
这是我的丈夫,丹。
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Hello.
你好。
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And we're going to be having a real English conversation today about travel, some surprising things that we've experienced,
今天我们要进行一场真正的英语对话,主题是旅行,以及我们经历过的一些令人惊讶的事情。
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some embarrassing things we've done abroad and I hope
我们在国外做过的一些尴尬事,我希望
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that this conversation will help you to immerse yourself in English
这次对话将帮助你沉浸在英语环境中。
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so that you can feel confident talking about your travels in English too.
这样你也能自信地用英语谈论自己的旅行经历。
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet, which is right now over Dan's face.
和往常一样,我制作了一份免费的PDF练习表,现在它正挡在丹的脸前面。
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It includes all of today's questions, vocabulary that just naturally comes up in our conversation,
它包含了今天所有的问题,以及我们交谈中自然出现的词汇。
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definitions, sample sentences, and at the bottom of the worksheet,
定义、例句,以及工作表底部的内容
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you can answer Vanessa's challenge question so that you never forget what you've learned in today's lesson.
你可以回答Vanessa的挑战问题,这样你就不会忘记今天课上学到的内容。
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You can click on the link in the description to download that free PDF worksheet today.
你可以点击描述中的链接,立即下载这份免费的PDF练习册。
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All right, Dan, are you ready to get started?
好的,丹,你准备好开始了吗?
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I'm ready.
我准备好了。
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Let's talk about traveling.
咱们来聊聊旅行吧。
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Okay.
好的。
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Well, I have a couple questions prepared and I don't really know what we're going to say along the way.
我准备了几个问题,但我不太确定我们接下来会聊些什么。
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This is just a...
这只是一个……
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These are the best conversations.
这些才是最棒的对话。
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Real conversation.
真实对话。
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I think.
我认为。
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All right.
好的。
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My first question- That's why I'm here.
我的第一个问题——这就是我来这里的原因。
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Yes.
是的。
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My first question is, where was the first place you traveled abroad?
我的第一个问题是,你第一次出国旅行去的是哪里?
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Uh, the first place I traveled abroad.
嗯,我第一次出国旅行的地方。
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Well, the first place that felt like I traveled abroad was actually New York City.
嗯,第一个让我感觉像是出国旅行的地方其实是纽约市。
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Oh.
哦。
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Because when you're in America, if you've never been to New York before, it feels like a different country because there's really no place like it.
因为当你身处美国时,如果你以前从未去过纽约,那里会给你一种仿佛置身于另一个国家的感觉,因为真的没有任何地方能和它相比。
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And there's just like so much diversity and action going on there.
那里充满了如此丰富的多样性和活力。
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But that's a bit of a cheat.
但这有点像是在投机取巧。
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The real first place I traveled abroad was Costa Rica.
我第一次真正出国旅行去的是哥斯达黎加。
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How old were you?
你当时多大年纪?
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18. Okay.
18. 好的。
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Yeah, I was 18 and I went with my school, our college that we went to where we met,
是啊,我当时18岁,是和我的学校一起去的,就是我们相遇的那所大学。
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and we went on a winter trip, I guess you would call it.
然后我们去了一次冬季旅行,我想你会这么称呼它。
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I don't remember what they called it.
我不记得他们当时是怎么称呼它的了。
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study trip.
研学旅行
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Yeah.
是的。
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They called it something and I was a biology major back then.
他们给它起了个名字,那时候我还是生物专业的学生。
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Ha ha ha.
哈哈哈。
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Not anymore.
现在不了。
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So we traveled to Costa Rica to do basically exploration of animals and biodiversity there.
所以我们前往哥斯达黎加,主要是去探索那里的动物和生物多样性。
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So we stayed in like little huts and stuff and heard the sounds of the jungle all around us.
我们当时住在小棚屋之类的地方,耳边全是丛林里传来的各种声响。
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It was not very, it wasn't a very like cultural experience, I don't think.
我觉得这算不上是一次很有文化体验感的经历。
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It was a very nature-based experience.
这是一次非常贴近自然的体验。
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Yeah.
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Even though there was a sprinkling of that every now and then, but I remember we went to resorts and stuff, so those places are really catering to,
虽然这种情况偶尔会出现,但我记得我们去过一些度假村之类的地方,那些地方确实是专门迎合……
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let's say, the Western audience.
比如说,西方观众。
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Yeah.
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So it didn't really feel as legit as some of the other travels I've done abroad later in life.
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Yeah.
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How about you?
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My first time traveling abroad was when I studied abroad my senior year, which is my final year of college,
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and I studied abroad in the UK, in England, in a town called Oxford, and I studied abroad at Oxford University.
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It sounds very academic and like,
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oh, you have to be extremely smart to be able to study abroad at Oxford, but let me tell you- That's how I felt looking at the pictures.
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I was like, whoa.
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I mean, the city- She's in Hogwarts.
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The city of Oxford.
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Yes, they filmed a lot of Harry Potter in Oxford, and that city is so beautiful.
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It is fantastic.
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I highly recommend visiting, but the study abroad program from our college was kind of just your grades had to be okay,
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and then you had to fill out the visa paperwork and you could go.
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Sounds like a win to me.
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It was great.
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This was the first time I'd ever traveled by myself and the first time I had ever left the US.
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So it was definitely one of those life-changing experiences where I could be independent, see the world a bit.
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I had some money saved, so I got to travel through Europe a bit as well.
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I wasn't sure you'd ever come back.
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It was wonderful.
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It was so lovely.
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She caught the bug.
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If you go to London ...
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The travel bug.
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Yes, the travel bug.
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You can get the bus to Oxford.
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It goes like every 10 minutes from London to Oxford, and it's so easy to get there, so beautiful.
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Highly recommend it.
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Yeah.
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Thank you, England.
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It was cool.
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I went one time.
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She lived there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was great.
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So my next question is kind of a follow-up of that, because I think there's a stereotype of Americans.
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I want to know, do you think it's true
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that most Americans don't travel abroad because it is definitely a position of privilege.
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You have to have money, you have to have connections, all of this to be able to travel abroad, no matter what country you live in,
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but it's kind of a stereotype, right?
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Americans don't travel to other countries.
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Yeah, it's a stereotype and I think it's generally true.
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Yeah, I mean, America's is just so big
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and people who live here tend to be like we have
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a large rural population I would say like people who just live in their small towns
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and they never leave
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or like even like a bigger city I used to live
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in Pittsburgh is a very like insular city like the people
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live there they have their sports teams they love it this is what we do this is Pittsburgh We're Pittsburghers for life,
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so a lot of cities are like that as well.
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Yeah, my uncle, my aunt and uncle live in Pittsburgh.
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And until a few years ago, they had never left the city of Pittsburgh.
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Even the state.
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Even the city of Pittsburgh.
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They had never left the city of Pittsburgh until a couple years ago.
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And ironically, the reason they left Pittsburgh was to go watch some Pittsburgh sports games in other cities.
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But I think that is kind of...
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The stereotype, but I did do a little research.
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Oh, you got numbers.
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The general stat that I found was that as of 2023, 52% of Americans have passports.
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Okay.
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So the majority of people do.
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That's more than I'd expect.
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And it said that it's risen a lot.
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It said it was only 5% in 1990.
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Are they going to Canada?
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That's the question.
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Canada doesn't count.
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If you asked a random person on the street in the US, have you been to another country?
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Not in a big city, just in a small city.
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If they say yes, I kind of guarantee, I might even bet $50 that they would say, oh yeah, I've been to another country.
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I've been to Niagara Falls.
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Yeah.
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You know, that's like the stereotypical place.
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You know, I'm thinking more about it though.
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And there's a lot of like border crossings though with Mexico.
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So there's like a lot of people who are probably like citizens who have family back in Mexico.
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That probably happens quite a bit.
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I'd imagine the majority live on the borders.
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Yeah, maybe even more than Canada.
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Yeah, maybe so.
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But I think it's...
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Just a guess.
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When I first traveled abroad, I got responses from people, from other people in my life.
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Like, are you sure you want to do that?
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You're going to go alone to England?
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That's not safe.
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They were really concerned.
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Why would you do that?
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And I was definitely gung-ho like, I'm going to do this.
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This is going to be great.
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And certainly when you've traveled abroad and come back home, those arguments just sound really silly.
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Most places, a lot of places in the world are extremely safe and totally fine to travel to.
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And to hear from people around me, oh, you shouldn't do that.
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Why would you do that?
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It was really shocking and pretty common.
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Yeah, stuff sounds scary to Americans, like subway travel.
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If you're from regular middle America, they're like, oh, you're just going underground and ride on a train.
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Yeah.
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I think some people would like to travel, would like to go to Paris or would like to go to London,
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these kind of stereotypical places that appeal to Americans.
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Selfie by the Eiffel Tower.
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Yes.
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high tourist destinations, but it is true we don't have much vacation time in the US compared to Europe for example,
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and it's so expensive.
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If you're in France and you want to go to Italy, so easy, so cheap, no problem.
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Oh, you mean it's expensive for us to travel?
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Yeah, if an American wants to go to Rome, it is extremely expensive.
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Far away.
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Yeah, it's far, you have to have a lot of vacation time, it's expensive.
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I understand.
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It's a cultural thing too, like that fear we were talking about of the unknown.
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If you have never known anyone who has left the US, like the people who were talking to me, of course you would think it was scary and why would you do that?
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But the more people you know who have traveled, the less scary it is, the more normal it is.
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Yeah.
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And I I bet it's changing too, just based on the interconnectedness of the world. For sure.
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People getting new ideas and wanting to travel around. For sure. For sure.
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Makes sense.
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All right, you ready for my next question?
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Yes.
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It's getting a little bit embarrassing with the next question.
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Oh dear.
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All right, I want to know what is a cultural mistake that you've made while you were abroad?
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How much time do we have?
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Probably more than I know
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because I'm one of those people who just like miss the cultural mistake and I'll be like, what?
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I guess this was one of those times, right?
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So in France when we we worked on some farms Willing workers on organic farms, woofing is what we did.
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For a couple months.
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For a little bit And so we were on this farm
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and this lady who was kind of running the program I don't speak any French.
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You speak a lot of French Um, so she comes up, like walks up towards me to give me the, uh, what have we- Bisou?
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Bisou.
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So like a little kiss on your cheek as a greeting?
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Yeah.
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But, you know, I don't know what that is and that's kind of awkward to me.
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So she's just kind of like walking at me, towards me, to do this.
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Big smile!
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Good morning!
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And I think I probably did like a little wave, like, hi!
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But then like I went around her.
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And so apparently she told you about this later like what's wrong with Dan?
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Yeah, she came up to me later.
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I was like, is Dan okay?
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Is he sick?
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Like he didn't she didn't understand why Dan didn't give her the bisous in the morning because in France it's Yeah,
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you just you don't even need to put your lips you just put your cheek to their cheek
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and For me when I first lived in France This was before our experience in France
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That was definitely a culture shock for me because for Americans, your face- Never put your face near anybody.
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.. is so intimate.
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You don't get near my face unless you're my husband.
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This is very intimate.
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We do this.
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We sometimes give hugs. Or this.
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Oh, okay, yeah.
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Sometimes give hugs, but when I- Side hugs.
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I remember one time I went to a wedding in France and in the room, it was everyone from my French host family,
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it was in a little official office.
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It was just a small room where they were signing the documents.
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I was introduced to every person, 30 people in the room, a bisous to every single person.
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To each person.
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I just remember thinking, I cannot imagine this happening in the US.
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It's very American too.
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In French, they're mad.
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It's a stereotype, and for me, I actually, I got used to it because it was
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so common just to give the Bisou that it becomes second nature almost.
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I remember another time that I made a mistake.
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I think I've shared this with my students before, but when we were in Korea,
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I feel like these cultural mistakes happen when you're living in a place
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because you're more aware of what should happen when you just travel for like a couple days.
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You're not in tourist destinations as much either.
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Yeah.
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I remember in Korea, I was ordering some kimbap or something like a little rice roll at this small little restaurant.
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It was our first or second week in Korea and I knew a couple words.
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I knew America is Mi Guk and American is Mi Guk Sadam.
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A lot of people asked us, where are you from?
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Where are you from?
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common question when you look different than the other people in the country.
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So a lot of people asked us, where are you from?
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Where are you from?
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And I knew the word where in Korean.
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So when I walked into the restaurant and I ordered kimbap to go- I don't remember that.
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You weren't there.
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Oh, okay.
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The lady at the restaurant asked me a question that started with where, and I assumed that she was asking, where are you from?
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But instead, she was asking, where do you want it delivered to?
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Because it was a cultural thing that you don't wait there to get the food at that restaurant.
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They will deliver it to you because we just worked in the next building
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and she was expecting that they would just deliver it to me.
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When she said, where, and the rest of her question, I said, meekook, America.
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She looked at me like, you want me to deliver this food to America? what?
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And then I tried to understand what is she talking about?
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And I tried to just, I just stayed and waited until the food was cooked.
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And then I took it with me.
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But later I realized, oh, she thought I was saying I wanted the food delivered in America.
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She wasn't asking that question.
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That's funny.
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Yeah.
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That reminds me of when we went to a restaurant in Korea.
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I don't know if this counts, but you don't really eat stuff with forks and knives, but we definitely asked for forks and knives for something.
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I don't remember what it was, but that's definitely a classic American faux pas to be like, hey, can I have a fork and a knife over here?
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Especially if it's like an Asian country that uses chopsticks.
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I must say though, on our behalf, we got really good at using chopsticks.
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Sure.
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I can use them, no problem.
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Well, they would make fun of the way I held it apparently.
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I have a claw grip apparently.
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Your little hands when you do this.
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Yeah.
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My little hands?
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Because you were like this when you hold the chopsticks.
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I like it.
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All right.
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The last and fourth question is this.
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What were some times that you were surprised by something cultural in another country?
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This is a huge question.
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There are probably millions of times.
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This is my favorite part about traveling because it's just kind of like constant surprises all the time.
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Yeah.
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It's really fun and interesting for people like us.
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Yeah.
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So, I would say in South Korea, because we lived there, I have the most experience there.
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So many things surprised me about that country,
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but one thing that really just jumps to mind from an American perspective is just the safety of the cities there.
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So or well I mean almost everything is a city compared to America.
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That's another surprise right?
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It's like some people are rural but most people live in the city and in high-rise towers and stuff.
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Yeah.
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So just walking around especially at night you would just be going down dark alleys
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or into the park at night and in America you just would never do that because
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people whether it's true
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or not people have it associated with danger like walking into
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a dark alley at night I just remember like walking
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and wanting being like should I be a little nervous
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and then like a little kid pops out of the door
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and it's like oh
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or did you see like somebody like just taking a nap
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with their phone sitting next to them like no big deal or we're in the park we're talking with our friends, we're drinking beer in the park.
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Can't do that here usually.
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I remember one time we went to the bank and our Korean coworker went with us to help translate.
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And we had a bunch of cash because we'd just gotten out cash for some reason.
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And we were trying to figure out how to get back to somewhere.
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And she's like, oh, we can cut down this street.
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And it was this little dark alley.
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And I was like, we just have all this cash.
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We just came from the bank.
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Why would we go down this alley?
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We'll go get mugged.
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And it was totally fine.
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Yeah.
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It's just so shocking how safe it is.
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It's not even that America is that dangerous, but it is more dangerous than a place like South Korea.
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Yeah.
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It just is.
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So you just have built in, especially in cities, because for whatever reason,
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the way American cities are organized or lack thereof, there's just a lot more crime in the city regions.
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But people in South Korea, like everybody lives in the city.
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This is our home of living in it all the time and it's a lot safer.
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It's a totally different vibe.
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One, I actually prefer.
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I think America actually stinks at doing cities.
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We could get a lot better at doing that and learn a thing or two.
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That's just my opinion.
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But yeah, that was really surprising to me.
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Yeah.
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I have a good safety anecdote where my sister, she lived in South Korea too for a period of time, but she didn't move there straight from the US.
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She was living in Argentina
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in Buenos Aires and then she moved to South Korea
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and she told me the first day or the first day or two that she was in Korea,
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she was on the bus and everyone was looking at their phones.
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When she walked on the bus and she saw that everyone had a phone, she was scared.
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She went and sat away from everybody who had a phone by herself because- They have to set their phones out.
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She was certain that someone was going to come on the bus, grab their phones, and do something violent.
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Because where she had been living in Buenos Aires, I don't know what it's like now.
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Apparently Buenos Aires is worse?
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I don't know what it's like now in Buenos Aires, maybe not everywhere there.
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But she was so used to never showing, never wearing earrings or necklaces or her phone in public.
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Somebody did like rip jewelry off her there, right?
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Yeah, she got it.
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Sorry Buenos Aires.
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This is just what we've heard.
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But that was her experience.
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So when she moved to Korea, it was shocking.
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The safety issue was shocking for her too.
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And you just get used to it after a period of time.
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But something that also surprised me, I wrote down a little- On a different note.
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Yes, a little idea here too, is that
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I was surprised how many people in various countries that we've lived in thought it was cool that we were American.
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I felt embarrassed by that because when I...
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Not France though, right?
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It depends.
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Because when I was living in France as a nanny, an au pair for a year,
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and this scenario happened so many times where I was with my friends who were Austrian,
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German, Australian, Swedish, and British.
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And the group of us girls would go everywhere together.
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We did so many things was wonderful time and
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when we met people they would ask where are you from
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and everyone would say where they were from and
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when i said i was from the u.s you could tell they just stopped
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and would say oh an american oh
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and they would ask me questions like is it true this is it true this
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and i guess it's a little more unusual i don't know i think there was something
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because i think there are americans that travel but i don't know i felt so embarrassed by that Maybe your age.
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I wasn't cooler than my friends.
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I'm just a normal person.
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Well...
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You're a little biased here.
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But it felt so weird to stop the conversation for something like that, especially when my friends are super cool.
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Why not ask them about their countries?
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And sometimes I said I was from Canada just to stop those questions.
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I guess you didn't have the Euro vibe.
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Maybe.
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You know, Europe is not one country at all, even close to it, but you know, it's still more common maybe to be like,
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hey, I guess they were taking like gap years too, right?
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A lot of them.
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So, maybe that's more of a common trend.
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It surprised me that that was something, at least at that time, which was what, 15 years ago now almost?
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That was cool.
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Wow.
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So maybe it's changed a lot because there's more American, real Americans out there in the world, so we're less cool.
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I guess.
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One other thing I wanted to- I know, should we say more?
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Because you could talk about this forever.
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I did have one other thing that I wanted to say- We'll say one more.
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Was surprising, something cultural that was surprising,
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was when we were teaching abroad in Korea, a lot of our family and friends said stuff to us like,
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oh, aren't Koreans really good at education?
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Their test scores are always the highest, like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean test scores.
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It's kind of like a household knowledge in the US that especially East Asian students are really smart.
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They get really high test scores.
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And so because we were teaching in a school there, our family and friends often asked us, is it true?
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What's that like? And...
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Because they're worked to the bone.
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That's the balance that is shocked me.
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Yes, Korean students get great test scores, all of this, but what's the cost?
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We were teaching seven, eight, and nine-year-olds at 7 PM, 8 PM at night.
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And that was so normal.
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For me, my heart broke for those kids.
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You don't need to be in here all day studying.
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They went from school to school to homework, to a little bit of sleep, to school, to school, to homework, to a little bit of sleep, over and over again.
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What's the cost?
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I think that that was something ...
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I loved living in Korea, and it was wonderful, but at that job ...
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Korean people, love you.
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Yes, it was so great.
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But this structure, I think that ...
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A little iffy for the kids.
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Yeah, for people like us who ...
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Mental health too, it shows.
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Yeah, really cared about the mental health of the kids and just other people, not just children.
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But it was really hard to continue in that job specifically where we were participating in that.
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And we were seeing that every day.
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I think our best times with the students that we taught in Korea was when we took them outside the classroom.
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We had a couple parties in the park, pizza parties in the park, or we took the kids to an amusement park, or we went to the zoo with the kids.
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That was ...
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They were using English all day, and it was no problem.
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They were having a great time, and I felt like, oh, they can be kids.
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They can learn English, but also be kids and have fun, and those are some of the most precious memories to me, I think, being in Korea.
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Okay.
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I got one more thing.
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Okay.
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What surprised me about traveling abroad is this is a little bit connected to what we've been talking about, but just how easy it is to travel everywhere.
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So many other countries just have more buses,
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more trains, more subways, more ways to get around and also just like infrastructure to walk places safely.
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Like in America, there's lots of places that they design only for cars.
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And you can't, like, maybe you could walk there, but nobody in their right mind wants to.
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And so that's just like all over the place here.
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But especially a place like South Korea, it's just so easy to get everywhere.
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It's in the entire country.
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Like we would take, you know, a trip from the city we were in to the beach.
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and it was very easy to take just different sources of transportation to get there without a car.
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Yeah, that's pretty common in Europe too.
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You can take a train and we haven't visited everywhere in the world.
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Obviously, there's big gaps in our experience like South America, Africa, Southeast Asia.
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We haven't been to a lot of those places, but someday.
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But I think to this point, I'm curious for those of you watching this,
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if you have visited the US and you have visited a place that was not New York City, not LA, not San Francisco,
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how did you get around?
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Did you rent a car?
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If you went to go visit, I don't know, Houston, Texas, how did you get around?
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Did you have to rent a car?
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Did you take a bus?
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I'm very curious what international travelers to the US who visit not big cities, what do you do?
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Maybe you rent a car.
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I mean, that's a very possible thing to do.
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That's pretty much how you got to do it.
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You got to do it like that.
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Yeah.
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I'm very curious to hear what you have to say.
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And I want to say, thank you, Dan, for participating in this conversation.
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You're welcome.
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It's always great to have another half of the conversation, not just me talking, because a lot of my students can understand me by myself,
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but to add another person, It's a good level of challenge.
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Yeah.
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You know me, I'm always game for easygoing conversation.
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Well, I'm glad you are.
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Thank you.
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And also I wanted to let you know, if you enjoyed this style of conversation where we are speaking real English about real topics
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that you can use in your daily life, I want to invite you to join us in our course, The Fearless Fluency Club.
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Right now, when this video comes out, we are having a big yearly discount on the yearly membership.
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That means you can join the Fearless Fluency Club for an entire year for a 55% off discount.
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It's a blowout.
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Amazing.
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And I want you to be able to hear real conversations like this.
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In the course, there are over 40 conversations with other native English speakers,
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plus 80, 90 conversations with us like this that you have never seen before.
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Plenty of PDFs that you can study with worksheets.
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There is a wonderful community of motivated English learners.
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I host live stream English lessons every Sunday.
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Many students meet together on Zoom to speak.
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So I would love for you to continue your English journey with us.
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You can get more information about the Fearless Fluency Club in the link in the description
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so that you can get the discount while it is available.
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And also, of course, you can download the free PDF for today's lesson.
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It is here over Dan's face.
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You can click on the link in the description to download that with all of today's vocabulary, questions, ideas, concepts.
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I may even add a few links and videos in there so that you can expand your study of this travel topic.
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You can click on the link in the description to download that free PDF worksheet today.
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Well, thanks Dan for joining me.
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I appreciate it.
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No problem.
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And thanks so much everyone for learning English with us.
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I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will immerse yourself in another real English conversation between Dan and I about work.
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This video includes a little work test for Dan.
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I wonder if he can pass.
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Are you curious?
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Well, I'll see you there to find out.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Real English Conversation: Advanced English Lesson”为素材。 这段视频共有 487 个句子、4851 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 28:17。 说话人语速自然,每分钟约 172 个词,接近日常对话。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇容易理解。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| stereotype 名词 | /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ | 刻板印象 |
| worksheet 名词 | 工作表 | |
| alley 名词 | /ˈæl.i/ | 弄, 里弄 |
| cheek 名词 | /t͡ʃiːk/ | 臉頰 /脸颊, 腮 |
| fork 名词 | /fɔɹk/ | цацазы, цацар |
| hug 动词 | /hʌɡ/ | 擁抱 /拥抱 |
| embarrass 动词 | /ɪmˈbæɹəs/ | 使…尷尬 /使…尴尬, 使…困窘 |
| kimbap 名词 | 紫菜包飯 /紫菜包饭 | |
| vocabulary 名词 | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | 詞匯 /词汇, 語匯 /语汇 |
| yearly 形容词 | /ˈjɪɹli/ | 每年的 |
| vibe 名词 | /vaɪb/ | 氛圍 /氛围 |
| subway 名词 | /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/ | 地鐵 /地铁, 地下鐵路 /地下铁路 |
| embarrassed 形容词 | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | 難為情 /难为情, 尷尬 /尴尬 |
| homework 名词 | /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/ | 作業 /作业, 家庭作業 /家庭作业 |
| anecdote 名词 | /ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/ | 逸事, 軼事 /轶事 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| come back 动词 | 回來 /回来, 返回 | |
| go down 动词 | 下降, 下去 | |
| come out 动词 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 出, 出來 /出来 |
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 | |
| cut down 动词 | 砍倒 | |
| figure out 动词 | 弄清楚 | |
| fill out 动词 | /fɪl ˈaʊt/ | 填, 填寫 /填写 |
| find out 动词 | 找出, 查明 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:
- Why would you do that?
- All right, you ready for my next question?
- How much time do we have?
- Why would we go down this alley?
- Did you rent a car?
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构,并附上视频中的原话:
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | we've experienced · we've done · have created |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | worksheet, which is · year, which is · people who live |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | was introduced · was cooked · are organized |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 95 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 don't, I'm, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- 长单词——注意重音位置: stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, stereotypical /ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/
中文母语者容易读错的音:
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/,上齿轻触下唇: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, vibe /vaɪb/, biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, thereof /ðɛˈɹʌv/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, immerse /ɪˈmɜɹs/, cheek /t͡ʃiːk/, fork /fɔɹk/, hug /hʌɡ/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: stereotypical /ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, yearly /ˈjɪɹli/, learner /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/, sprinkle /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读,熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 stereotype, worksheet, alley 这类单词。
什么是跟读法?
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。





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